Nothing outside physical reality that provides an "ultimate standard of morality"? Let's approach it this way: according to you, is there anything outside of physical reality? (By "outside" I understand you to mean "that isn't.")No. — René Descartes
Is there an ultimate standard of morality, something outside physical reality?
2 hours ago — Issac Scoggins
Is there an ultimate standard of morality, something outside physical reality? — Issac Scoggins
Why is it that most people accept the idea that parents treat their children better than strangers? Evolution provides the perfect explanation. No moral philosophy does. — LD Saunders
Mr Phil: You are ignoring what evolution tells us about why you love your mother. — LD Saunders
Yes, but it is not absolute or existing outside of physical reality and it is a social construct. I never suggested that there was no such thing as morality. — René Descartes
exactly my point as well. Regardless of how you want to consider the origins, if you admit morality is a real thing, and that it determines what is right and wrong, an absolute claim on morality is an absolute moral claim. Its like drinking milk, talking about what you think of it, and denying its existence simultaneously, while admitting what you have in your hand and enjoy to drink and talk about is called milk. — Mr Phil O'Sophy
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